Re: Average life of a conlang

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
[...]
>> It would, I guess. Also I myself am sort of interested in how it will
>> work itself out. The phonology did not turn out as I had for very many
>> years expected it to do. Already as I make draft workings on the grammar
>> and try out sentences, I feel the language taking on forms which I had
>> not envisaged. The darn thing has a life of its own and is simply not
>> allowing itself to die. "You conceived me," it says. "I've had far too
>> long a gestation - now get me born and find out what I _really_ look like!"
>
> I know very well what you are talking about.  It is similar with
> me and Old Albic.  Whenever I find out something about the language,
> it feels more like *discovering* something that has always been there
> than like *inventing* something that has never before been anywhere.
I love it when that happens. Had it happen to me just yesterday, in
fact, when I discovered the difference between formal prose and poetic
forms of relative clauses in one of my langs.

-l.

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